Tommy Hinks
Software Architect at RaySearch Laboratories
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Hinks is a software architect with 14 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ systems in medical imaging, simulation, and real-time graphics. Currently at RaySearch Laboratories and co-founder of a medical device startup, he blends product-focused engineering with deep research experience from a PhD in computer science. His background spans R&D roles in VFX and visualization—bringing expertise in OpenGL, geometry, and simulation to practical clinical and creative applications. Tommy favors maintainable, extensible architectures and has an open-source interest (notably a Poisson-disk sampling repo) that reflects his attention to geometric algorithms. Based in Stockholm, he moves fluidly between hands-on implementation and system-level design, often turning academic ideas into production-ready software. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who builds scalable code through collaborative, curiosity-driven development.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University College DublinMSc, Media TTechnology, Computer Graphics, MSc, Media TTechnology, Computer Graphics at Linköping University
Github Skills (18)
poisson10
single-file10
sampling10
c1110
openframeworks10
disk10
dimensions10
c-library10
cpp10
data-structure9
sparse9
volume-rendering9
voxel9
openvdb8
dicom6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thinks/pnm-io
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 34 commits, 29 pushes in 3 years 2 months
thinks/obj-io
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Single-file, header-only, no dependencies C++ implementation of the Wavefront obj file format.
Contributions:2 releases, 89 commits, 75 pushes in 1 year 5 months
c-plus-plusheader-onlyno-dependenciesobj-filessingle-file
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